Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 17:44 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: >> Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > These two patches change autofs4 to store struct pid pointers instead of pid_t >> > values. >> > >> > Fixed various issues with the previous post. Not tested, handle with >> > care! >> >> Customer gave positive test results. > > For what exactly, there's no problem description in these patches? >From what I understand (and I'm not an expert by any means) is that autofs doesn't work if containers are used. The first patch fixes this. Both the patches replace pid_t with a refcounted struct pid object, which has better lifetime properties: you don't know whether a pid_t is valid, because pid numbers are reused, while pid objects remain valid until there are no more references to them. Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
